Bug#886382: Coming updates for meltdown/spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi Louis-Philippe! On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > No, we don't know if they will release it *only* to vendors for a > > firmware update, or also for operating system updates. Also, for Zen > > and later one cannot just hope to update microcode through the operating > >

Bug#886382: Coming updates for meltdown/spectre

2018-01-05 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
> No, we don't know if they will release it *only* to vendors for a > firmware update, or also for operating system updates. Also, for Zen > and later one cannot just hope to update microcode through the operating > system, often it requires such an early update that it has to be done by > the

Bug#886382: Coming updates for meltdown/spectre

2018-01-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 05 Jan 2018, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Package: amd64-microcode > Severity: grave > > It seems AMD cpus are also affected by the meltdown/spectre bugs. Yes, they are, although just by Spectre as far as we know (i.e. not affected by Meltdown). > Do you know if AMD plans to

Bug#886382: Coming updates for meltdown/spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
Package: amd64-microcode Severity: grave It seems AMD cpus are also affected by the meltdown/spectre bugs. Do you know if AMD plans to release microcode updates and if so, will it be packaged here? (intel bug, for ref): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886367 -- pollo